Malgana country is the area around Shark Bay in Western Australia. In particular it includes the Peron and Edel Land Peninsulas as well as some of the adjoining land. The Irra Wangga Language Centre[3] (having taken over from the Yamaji Language Centre) has been carrying out work on the Malgana language since 1995 and has produced an illustrated wordlist as well as grammatical materials and a dictionary (the latter two unpublished).

'Targuda'/'Daguda', 'Buluguda', 'Damala', and 'Watjanti' were likely Malgana-speaking locations, rather than dialects, but it's possible they were Nhanda instead.[2]

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Western Australia
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Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Southern Ocean to the south, the state has about 2.6 million inhabitants, around 11% of the national total. 92% of the lives in the south-west corner of the state. The first European visitor to Western Australia was the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, the first European settlement of Western Australia occurred following the landing by Major Edmund Lockyer on 26 December 1826 of an expedition on behalf of the New South Wales colonial government. This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the site of the present-day capital, york was the first inland settlement in Western Australia. Situated 97 kilometres east of Perth, it was settled on 16 September 1831, Western Australia achieved responsible government in 1890, and federated with the other British colonies in Australia in 1901. Today its economy relies on mining, agriculture and tourism. The state produces 46% of Australias exports, Western Australia is the second-largest iron ore producer in the world. The International Hydrographic Organization designates the body of water south of the continent as part of the Indian Ocean, the total length of the states eastern border is 1,862 km. There are 20,781 km of coastline, including 7,892 km of island coastline, the total land area occupied by the state is 2.5 million km2. Most of the state is a low plateau with an elevation of about 400 metres, very low relief. This descends relatively sharply to the plains, in some cases forming a sharp escarpment. The extreme age of the landscape has meant that the soils are remarkably infertile, even soils derived from granitic bedrock contain an order of magnitude less available phosphorus and only half as much nitrogen as soils in comparable climates in other continents. Soils derived from extensive sandplains or ironstone are even less fertile, nearly devoid of soluble phosphate and also deficient in zinc, copper, molybdenum, the infertility of most of the soils has required heavy application by farmers of chemical fertilisers, particularly superphosphate, insecticides and herbicides. These have resulted in damage to invertebrate and bacterial populations, the grazing and use of hoofed mammals and, later, heavy machinery through the years have resulted in compaction of soils and great damage to the fragile soils. Large-scale land clearing for agriculture has damaged habitats for native flora, large areas of the states wheatbelt region have problems with dryland salinity and the loss of fresh water. The southwest coastal area has a Mediterranean climate and it was originally heavily forested, including large stands of karri, one of the tallest trees in the world. This agricultural region is one of the nine most bio-diverse terrestrial habitats, thanks to the offshore Leeuwin Current, the area is one of the top six regions for marine biodiversity and contains the most southerly coral reefs in the world

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Shark Bay
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Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. At that time most of the area was dry land, rising sea levels flooding Shark Bay between 8,000 BP and 6,000 BP, Shark Bay was named by William Dampier, on 7 August 1699. The heritage–listed area had a population of fewer than 1,000 people as at the 2011 census, the half-dozen small communities making up this population occupy less than 1% of the total area. The World Heritage status of the region was created and negotiated in 1991, the site was gazetted on the Australian National Heritage List on 21 May 2007 under the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Act,2003. Declared as a World Heritage Site in 1991, the covers a area of 2,200,902 hectares. Denham and Useless Loop both fall within the boundary of the site, yet are specifically excluded from it, Shark Bay was the first Australian site to be classified on the World Heritage list. The bay itself covers an area of 1,300,000 hectares and it is divided by shallow banks and has many peninsulas and islands. The coastline is over 1,500 kilometres long, there are about 300 kilometres of limestone cliffs overlooking the bay. One spectacular segment of cliffs is known as the Zuytdorp Cliffs, the bay is located in the transition zone between three major climatic regions and between two major botanical provinces. Dirk Hartog Island is of historical significance due to landings upon it by early explorers, in 1616, Dirk Hartog landed at Inscription Point on the north end of the island and marked his discovery with a pewter plate, inscribed with the date and nailed to a post. This plate was replaced by Willem de Vlamingh and returned to Holland. It is now kept in the National Museum of Holland, there is a replica in the Shark Bay Discovery Centre in Denham. Bernier and Dorre islands in the north-west corner of the area are among the last-remaining habitats of Australian mammals threatened with extinction. They are used, with other smaller islands throughout the marine park. The Australian Wildlife Conservatory is the guardian of Faure Island, off Monkey Mia, seasonally, sea turtles come here to nest and are the subject of studies conducted in conjunction with the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation on this sheltered island. Shark Bay is an area of major zoological importance and it is home to about 10,000 dugongs, around 12. 5% of the worlds population, and there are many Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, particularly at Monkey Mia. The dolphins here have been friendly since the 1960s. The area supports 26 threatened Australian mammal species, over 230 species of bird and it is an important breeding and nursery ground for fish, crustaceans, and coelenterates

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